summa

CEFRC1

/sˈumə/

noun

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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A surname from Italian.
A comprehensive summary of, or treatise on a subject, especially theology or philosophy.

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Summa is a Latin word meaning a total or a summary of a thing.
In size, scope, and graphic ambition [the map] is a summa of the mapping art of the day, represented in paint by Vermeer.
The painting is a “summa” of the various trends that intertwined and developed during those crucial years of the early sixteenth century in Florence.

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In size, scope, and graphic ambition [the map] is a summa of the mapping art of the day, represented in paint by Vermeer.
1987, Svetlana Alpers, “The Mapping Impulse in Dutch Art”, in David Woodward, editor, Art and Cartography: Six Historical Essays, page 57
The painting is a “summa” of the various trends that intertwined and developed during those crucial years of the early sixteenth century in Florence.
1993, Franca Falletti, The David and the Accademia Gallery, page 6
Rockefeller Center is at once a summa of the Art Deco style, and a look ahead to the Internationalist style that dominated after World War II.
1999, Eric Nash, Manhattan Skyscrapers, page 93

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From Latin summa.